On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 10:52 +0200, Amon Ott wrote:
Now I wonder if Dovecot could return errors to the users instead of dying until time is fine again, e.g. "System time has moved backwards, please come back in n seconds". If the time skip is just a few seconds, it can of course delay and then go on as it does now.
With this change, no admin would be needed to carefully restart Dovecot at the right time. I have not looked into Dovecot code myself yet, but could try a patch if necessary.
I think this is just way too much trouble for handling a situation that really shouldn't be happening in the first place.. The code already allows the clock to move backwards by 5 seconds without dying, so how horrible are the clocks in those computers? :)
It's anyway easy to increase that time by modifying the sources. src/lib/ioloop.c IOLOOP_MAX_TIME_BACKWARDS_SLEEP